Tinder is not a. "Hookup" app. No one I know uses it as one.

The same kind of person who would use "You let yourself go," to describe anything other than the release of a balloon with your face on it.

I'm a Girl Scout leader. The Girl Scout organization's official Science and Technology badges are lame anyway, and would probably result in similar sparkly programs. Here they are: Home Scientist, Entertainment Technology, Science of Happiness, and Science of Style. All the badge and recognition programs were…

I was involved in the UK 'Guide Movement' from like way from the Rainbows, through the Brownies and then Guides

This issue is a tough one, which frustrates me endlessly. When I was at school, we had the WISE (Women into science and engineering) bus come to school. It was pretty cool, but there was only me and one other girl from the year below me who were interested. Well, us and my male friends who hung round the door…

Yup. It's damn near impossible to find any STEM classes for girls in any setting—community ed, science museums, etc—that do not include "sparkle," "pink," "princess," or "spa" in the description. It makes me furious. And then this summer, when I enrolled my five year old daughter in a Lego class, she was the only…

Wow. It's like you didn't even bother to read any of the above article but raced down here to make a super anti-MRA comment as fast as you could.

"Why not just create one page with offerings for Scouts, period? That way you get the boys, the girls, the conservative religious alternatives to both, whoever. "

The page for Scouts in general is reasonable. Plus, why the hell can't sparkle, health and beauty products be for boys too? There was a similar sparkly makeup girls camps where I used to live—my friend signed up her 14 year old boy for it (he is remarkably chill and feminist for a 14 year old).

I had a guy message me and ask if I wanted to give him head while he played Skyrim. No hello. No introduction. Just asking if I wanted to blow him while he played. Which I wouldn't really object to, he was kinda cute, except that was the entirety of his message. Missed opportunity on his part. Provide a proper…

No, they absolutely wouldn't. If I couldn't do what a guy needed to get him off, but expected him to get me off straight out of the gate every time we had sex, then I wouldn't expect him to want to have sex with me very much. Yet this was how a couple of men tried to treat me: They knew what got me off (lots and lots…

My husband honestly likes one now and then. I told him people say no one likes them and that girls can't do it well and he said people don't know what they are missing. I like a little hand action too, sometimes it's nice to lay back and feel good.

I already knew that most men are decent people, I know and love quite a few sterling examples of modern men.

The angry, sad, bitter, nasty, fuck-it, everybody-wins-but-me mentality, and they don't have to give you time to see it. It comes through as soon as you start talking, and like I said, it's probably visible on you, too. That's not part of being a "decent guy".

Your sad story of chronic rejection isn't an excuse for…

Hon, I just told you what the reason is. Your attitude is for shit, and you're probably wearing it as well as writing it. I'd avoid any guy who looks like you sound, because he's going to be really unpleasant to be with.

All those people who say "take care of yourself, love yourself", all that — it's not a joke. If you…

I've seen your comments on Jez for awhile now. If the persona you show women in the dating world is like the one you cultivate here, it's not your looks they don't like. It's the persistent negativity & NiceGuyTM attitude. If you operate under the umbrella assumption that we're all just superficial bitches, then…

I think the way to win is to stick to "Mister Hitachi" until/unless one finds a guy who doesn't feel entitled to someone 20 years younger than him. But I'll admit that's just my personal outlook and wouldn't work for someone more marriage-and-family oriented who really doesn't want to be single anymore.

This might just…

Where did I say that people should date their own age? I said that a 10-year age gap is not close in age.

But diversity is one of the things that made Star Trek so great! Gene Roddenberry was like, but it's future/space/fantasy so I can make it whatever I want, and I want it to be inclusive and awesome:

Fucking colorblind, post-racial, whitewashed bullshit. Minimizing the importance of representation by creating a white male Everyman is exactly the problem. People think it has to be an all or nothing inclusion when what people are really asking for is a more realistic portrayal of life and history. PEOPLE OF COLOR…